[Foundation-l] The systematic and codified bias against non-Western articles on Wikinews

Andre Engels andreengels at gmail.com
Tue Sep 6 12:54:14 UTC 2011


On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Thomas Morton
<morton.thomas at googlemail.com>wrote:


> But as Tom say, online media has quickly found that the traditional
> editorial process doesn't work so well on the internet. On the other hand
> the net does allow very quick rewrite & expansion for a developing story.
>
> It's this last step that WN perhaps hasn't learned or adopted yet.
>

That sounds weird. Basically what you're saying is that Wikinews is less
wiki-like than traditional news venues.

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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com



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